and you know so unsurprisingly many people have dark there's no parliament needed me repute the axis thing election law making it more human and it should be done now or then later because if it is done to be laid there you know the parliament will be more worried about gerrymandering about how the new election law will benefit them staying in indonesia at least seventeen people have been killed by floods and landslides following heavy rain and cool province on the island of sumatra was the hardest hit twelve thousand people have been evacuated as the rain continues on since season in indonesia typically runs from october to april just last month flooding in poppea province killed more than one hundred people. the police in india have broken up fights between voters during the fourth phase of a staggered national election it happened in the state of west bengal supporters of the prime minister narendra modi's b j p party carried sticks and threatened voters supporting other opposition parties that is running for

a second term in office this election is being seen as a referendum on his five years in government. well more than one hundred twenty seven million people are eligible to vote in this round of india's seven phrase election the polls have opened in areas throughout indian administered kashmir al-jazeera spoke to a cartoonist who described how his work is affected by the instability of the region he hopes the elections will change the dark imagery he sees that influences his work. i'm thirty one i'm from and i'm a graphic novelist think of spending so much of time with my parents especially with my father. i wanted to imitate his drawings he would draw all these traditional embroidery more tips on paper. and. saw. trying to copy his pictures and. and i would forget what was happening

outside i remember. being fearful of my father being taken by by the armed forces for these fruit and identification but aids. but but this drawing and helping my father was was was the best time of my childhood but i stepped outside the home still today. that's two of that fear is still there and. now i fear for my nephews and my nieces and my friends when i talk about my stories when i write my stories. i want to why showing people as just numbers. you know i just wanted to show people the way they are in their real lives someone's friend someone's related to and something like that so that so that people relate to them and this

text our visual offers them the cinematic experience i think it's very effective in terms of. speaking about our personal experience lives and. and creating a device where people can relate to your life and see see see distribution differently not just as a dispute but as us as a humanitarian problem as well i hope the situation changes and i don't how to draw these dark rituals and did some good bellew a normal life but that's obviously a dream you know. for the first time in more than two hundred years of japan's monarchy an emperor is up the casing eighty five year old akihito has been on the throne for more than thirty years but on tuesday he'll step aside for his oldest son the crown prince not a he took his way in hainault explains from tokyo the emperor has been a largely popular leader who helps to japan through difficult times. it's been

eight years since the earthquake and tsunami which changed the lives of so many people here. as home was destroyed that day and while he finds it difficult to put it behind him there's one moment he clings to. the emperor and empress came in you walked over to where i was. must have been difficult for you i will never forget his words. the eighty three year old says meeting the imperial couple in an evacuation center gave him the strength to rebuild his life akihito his compassionate response to the disaster became one of the defining moments of his reign. not for those affected by this terrible tragedy i feel deeply pain. akihito succeeded his father in one nine hundred eighty nine and spent much of his reign trying to

address the legacy of japan's actions in world war two but the emperor holds no political power and he's stepping down as the prime minister wants to revise japan's pacifist constitution to allow for a military instead of what it calls a self-defense force it's also believed that the emperor is it all it's with the government over the very future of his family the imperial family is generally regarded as fairly liberal but it's still a male dominated institution only men from the male line of the family can become emperor and the family has no power to change that it has to come from the government. wants not all he told becomes emperor there are only three. one of them is eighty three. female and prison from a male lion in the past and there has never been a female lion we should talk about this it may mean changing tradition but we have to be flexible and reflect modern day society at fifty nine. one of

a new breed of royals and may relate to a different generation some of whom question the relevance of the imperial family the japanese such as the relevance is very personal from time to time he proudly weighs the same clothing he wore when he met the emperor. i have been treasuring. whenever something happens look at the card. akihito retires at a time when the imperial family's popularity is high according to opinion polls but the transition will raise more questions about the family's future and whether more change will come to ensure it survives wayne hay al jazeera tokyo now when we come back. in about.

time for sports with south thank you very much kevin durant's put in another huge performance for the golden state in the n.b.a. playoffs the champion's winning the opening game this second round series against the houston rockets drawn followed to his fifty point display against the clippers a few days ago by scoring thirty five. through though that scored the vital. three point opening a five point lead in the final minutes while the worry is hanging on in oakland a final score hundred four two hundred they're looking to win a championship in a row. the boston celtics beat the milwaukee bucks and game one of

the second round series the bucs were the best team in the regular season but could do little to stop boston skier who got twenty six points on new alkies home court final score hundred twelve to ninety boston. so that's a good start of the game. good looks play well together and then start the second half really well together. just to montell out of from the cricket world cup host in glenda have access one of their big names alex hales well it comes a days after the opening batsman was handed a twenty one day ban for taking recreational drugs england say they've decided to drop him to prevent on assess unnecessary distractions or health or previously sanctioned for his part in the street brawl involving indian teammate ben stokes back in two thousand and seventeen and his not being a first choice pick since then. czech republic footballer joseph

sorolla has died after a road accident at the age of twenty eight the striker who played for turkish team or suffered fatal injuries when a minibus carrying him and six other teammates crashed while returning from a match on sunday the club chairman has claimed the tragic accident happened as a result of the driver falling asleep but police are investigating the fatal crash . well liverpool defender virgil a van dyke has been named the play of the year by his fellow professionals in england the twenty seven year old becomes the fourth dutchman to win the accolade well vandyke could join liverpool from southampton in january last year while recalled fever for defender since then has helped to improve their defense as they bid to win the premier league for the first time since one thousand nine hundred liverpool also in the semifinals of the champions league and are up against

barcelona with the first leg on tuesday i think the whole season i've been feeling great. we've been winning many games we've competed we are competing with man city for the for the title. and obviously i think the most important thing is to stay fit and play comes consistent as well and i think i've been doing pretty well this season. as they would with all the help of my team mates would be it would have been possible and you know we just we have just to keep going and carry on and. yeah i'm feeling good. by munich have dropped points as they look to win seven wins league title in a row they drew one all against seventeenth place. having gone up behind. the bryan level they were lucky to escape with a draw missing in injury time to the result leaves behind two points ahead of

dortmund both have five games left to play. well madrid have lost their tenth league match of the season that is the most they've suffered in the campaign for a decade they were beaten one nil by a leader second bottom side. it was also then it is a down second defeat since his return to the club the last compounds and miserable season for los blancos in which they've only won the world club. everything was wrong there was none of that we were not in the one i want but we weren't running there are games where you have difficulties for whatever reason playing against opponents the run more than you and make things difficult for you but we didn't do anything at that time for him over scored it yet again as the l.a. galaxy continued their on beaten streak in major league soccer he got the winning goal in a two one victory over real salt lake which makes it seven games with defeats it's

also six straight wins at home to start the season which galaxy have not done since one thousand nine hundred ninety six he now has eight goals this season. and the n.h.l. playoffs the colorado avalanche survived a real scare against san jose sharks in the second round series the avalanche were trailing in the second period and were risk of going down in the series but they managed to come back a score these tie breaking goals and record the to assist to lead the colorado to four three winners. and the carolina hurricanes have taken it to nothing lead to end the second round series against new york islanders one for gayle and you know the greater score forty eight seconds apart and missed the hurricanes to one victory. and that's it for me peter thanks very much that was our broadcast that was your news hour last minute because we want on the web site al jazeera dot com

adrian's waiting in the wings with thirty minutes announcer well i'm back twelve we'll see you very soon thanks for watching.

the final version. one of the really special things about working for al-jazeera is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much and put in contribution to a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else would be what it is you know is that it turns the body but the good because you have a lot of people that are divided on political issues. people believe to tell the real story so i'll just mandate is to do you work in depth in the museum we don't feel inferior to a good audience across the globe. on counting the call says the u.s. slams the brakes on iran's oil exports will try the spillover effect also have a secret world of high risk lending impacts the poor in a sting operation to catch a spy let's apply for control of the next generation of my bomb counting the cost

on al-jazeera. zeros. swear every. winds up pederasts sanchez is socialists but he'll need coalition partners to govern. hello i'm adrian from again this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up says that one of two men held on suspicion of spying for the u.a.e. has taken his own life in prison. afghan elders assemble in kabul with u.s.

taliban talks at the top of their agenda. and china fulfills its pledge to the u.s. by banning all types of opioid related drugs but will examine mexico's role in the fight against illegal prescription drugs. spain's governing socialists have picked up the most seats in sunday's elections but with nearly all the votes counted it looks like they won't have enough for an outright majority and for the first time a far right party is to enter parliament sania gago reports from madrid i say won the race but there is no certainty of forming a government yet the socialists triumphant in their win lacking an outright majority was spaniards have sent many messages today we have sent

a message of what we do not want we did not want to go back we want to country to look forward into the future we have also sent a message to europe and the world that we have won and rejected all thor tarion ism . the as they may be but now they have a duty to form a coalition one possibility the left wing anti austerity together we can party its leader public less yes has already said that he is willing to support the socialists as they say on us in the senate and is fine for several years elections in spain have not been about winning but about convincing people you know what about making up the numbers we are an essential political force for the formation of a left wing government is not sustainable. but the numbers still do not add up to a majority they would need support from regional parties in particular the catalan pro independence groups the alternative a deal with the center right citizens party comfortably form

a coalition in terms of numbers they have been one of the surprises of the election they come a west neck and neck with the people's party the p.p. the traditional opponents of the socialists in general elections were to pass the race but this election has brought the worst. results in p. piece history. of corruption scandal punished by some of its followers over its course of action when confronting cattle on pro independent tests this is a party now in deep crisis a grand reckoning sealing their fate and now. fighting the no we will fight even harder this is only the beginning we told you we will start reconquering and we are initiating that conquering with a presence in congress vox is here to stay but the latest player in this race vox struck out and claimed that own stake in the game. one of the votes is that's

extremely happy with the results of the night knowing the supporters of course are right. now behind me listening to the leaders. as well as they could have it dissipates and they are the new force in the lower house of parliament. and with vox's games nationalism is back in spain. ally now apart from this politics in europe. madrid. is that. the horse trading begins right now the business of coalition building. absolutely and it really is a new era in spanish politics aged know what it looks like they may be forming a coalition or talking at least to the parties. there most which is the left wing party and also possibly independents and bass parties on the question when it comes

to that of course in a coalition one that won't have many more seats in terms of a large comfortable majority this is something that you know they will tell you will be a very fractured government if he manages the mess by the sanchez manages to form a government at all. then of course if you do have those parts you then what kind of demands are they going to make because for example the e.r.c. which is the independent party won fifteen seats last night well its leader is currently on trial here in madrid along with others he's the main defendant because of that illegal against the constitution referendum that was held in two thousand and seventeen so there are many challenges ahead but i think first and foremost we're going to have to wait and see what this coalition is going to look like that could take weeks and then we're going to have to see how these difficult issues are going to be talk about. something. or other staff sannio in her report was talking about the rise of this new force in spanish politics vox what's being made there

the morning after the election about the fact that this far right party has secured seats in parliament. but it's something that many political analysts at least will tell you was never to be expected in a country that's had such a painful history when it comes to the time of general franco there is of course some support they did win votes but spain overwhelmingly voted laugh two million people voted less for the right than they did for the left this time in the last election that's because people did come out to vote vote but the turnout was huge the second biggest ever in the history of the democracy of spain because people were so afraid we were talking to many of them saying it would be unacceptable to have a right wing coalition governing this country particularly with a party like the far right folks within it i think at the moment certainly you heard and saw in his report there the p.p. party the center right that was used to be

a pillar of politics here is the one with the biggest sort of hit if you say they're going to have to rethink about their way forward it comes to politics in this country but i think for now the victory is being sung by the socialists i think you know it might be premature because he has a difficult path ahead but it is significant of course that a party like books has come into parliament and that is mainly a reaction to the whole catalogue of independence issues which of course has still not going away how is there a stephanie to life in madrid stephanie things a man who'd been detained in turkey and charged with spying for the united arab emirates has reportedly taken his own life in prison according to the turkish government zaki and his son's body was found in saline free prison on the outskirts of istanbul two men were arrested earlier this month and reportedly confessed to spying on arab nationals live to istanbul i was serious and i'm close to is that sort of who was this man what was he accused of doing why was he in prison.

while the. turkey will come up this morning with the news that the palestinian national person who. as who has called festa have been spying on behalf of united arab emirates have been a has as killed himself in the sort of terror confinement that they were to people they were to palestinian nationals who are captured who were arrested by the turkish police after following a couple of months long technical survey then by the turkish intelligence what we have what we know for so far is that those two paul the senior ins have been working on behalf of the united arab emirates intelligence and when they were arrested by the turkish all these earlier earlier this month we have heard from our sources and that's the turkish intelligence. did more when they figured out that

these two men contacted a suspect who is name is. murder investigation file when as they were being technically surveyed by the intelligence when they figured this out they made the move when the police captured them and they confessed that they are working on behalf of emirates according to the turkish sources turkish intelligence is set to believe that it is systemic is about race relations with the u.a.e. in egypt and saudi arabia have been strained mainly following to military coup in two thousand and thirteen there are links there information collecting capacity in turkey has become limits and that's why the turkish intelligence is said to be thinking that they're using other our top national nationals for intelligence gathering and. what we have learned from our security sources is that these two are people we're here mainly to spy on not only our our nationals but the most of

brotherhood members who have been residing in turkey following day a military coup in egypt in two thousand and thirteen this is what we know so far about. what we have learned from a press statement by the chief persecutors office is that he hanged himself on the bathroom door of a solitary confinement early morning yesterday and by using his clothes mainly ok so many thanks indeed and of course you know that in istanbul well earlier we spoke to one man that is the managing editor of the daily sabah an english language news site he said the death further complicates the political tensions between turkey and the u.a.e. . i think it's significant for this for the fact that joey now you know will not be able to gather further information. on one on their more divisions or or what sort of. him they had in turkey in terms of pollute leisha's i think

it's also important because the you we will you know will try to use this against turkey based on its already existing rivalry institute but if you're a leader this is not something that will serve this is this is not a decision that will really served two tours interests it's about what we did find on it right after they were arrested that. these two individuals were at work to build some sort of and tie to the structure this is some of the information that we received. from our sources turkey's president is backing libya's u.n. recognized government in its fight against the warlord i mean. but i want to scribe tough times advance on tripoli as a plot against the libyan people he says the turkey will support the tripoli based government as it attempts to drive fighters out of the capital at a call made by donald trump earlier this month to hostile offering support has

angered some members of the president's own party republican senator lindsey graham described it as unnerving. i don't know what the phone call to haftar was about but it had an unnerving effect on the ground i was in tunisia and the president. or a general from the east of libya smoothing on tripoli and saying thank you for helping with isis and after did for phone call seems to be perceived in the region as we're picking. up the reports now from tripoli forces loyal to. have to have advance towards the. neighborhood that's about fifteen kilometers away from tripoli city center and eyewitnesses in al sadr and locals there say that they have seen have to his forces engaging against forces loyal to the you and the recognized government of national accord in.